FEBRUARY 22, 2015
MADISON, WI
According to a report from the Wisconsin State Journal,
58-year-old John Stoll was working at a construction site for a new
apartment building when a wall collapsed on top of him and trapped him.
Madison Fire Department officials told the paper Stoll was
working near a stairwell at the rear of the building. His co-workers freed him
before rescue workers arrived to the scene.
He was transported to University of Wisconsin Hospital where
he was later pronounced dead.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration in
investigating the DEADLY incident.
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UPDATE: WORKER
IDENTIFIED IN FATAL WALL COLLAPSE AT CONSTRUCTION SITE
Update: The victim of the construction site accident has
been identified as John P. Stoll, 58, of Fitchburg, the Dane County Medical
Examiner's Office said Saturday.
A worker at a construction site off John Nolen Drive died Friday
after a wall collapsed and trapped him, authorities said.
The collapse happened at the future site of the Watermark
Lofts apartment building, 960 John Nolen Drive on Madison’s South Side, around
7:30 a.m. Friday.
The man was taken to UW Hospital, where he died, according
to the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office.
A representative from the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration was at the site Friday morning, along with Madison police and
fire units that left around 9 a.m.
Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth said the man
had been working near a stairwell at the rear of the building.
“When firefighters and medics arrived, workers at the site
had freed their co-worker,” Wirth said.
Workers at the site declined to talk about the incident.
The Watermark Lofts, on the John Nolen Drive service road
near the Beltline and Turville Bay, is scheduled to open this summer with
apartments and retail space.
It is being built at the former site of the Causeway Centre
apartment building, which was destroyed by a fire in April 2012.
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Damages to the Causeway Centre office building could total
over $2 million, with the building suffering heavy damage from the Tuesday
blaze that could be seen for miles.
As of Wednesday morning, exterior walls to the two-story
office building at 900 John Nolen Drive were standing, but almost all of the
interior structure had collapsed, Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori
Wirth said to Madison.com.
"Firefighters maintained an overnight watch, putting
out hot spots until about 4 a.m.," Wirth said. "Stuff was still
falling inside the interior, so there could be more hot spots during the day on
Wednesday."
No cause has been determined of the blaze that was first
reported at 4 p.m. Tuesday, a fire that went to a second and then a third
alarm, with a total of 82 personnel on scene, including firefighters from the
town of Madison, Fitchburg, Monona and McFarland.
The Madison assessors office showed the 11 business condo
units in the building had an assessed value of $1,935,000, not counting the
business property of the individual unit owners.
No one was injured among the firefighting crews, and no
injuries were reported to people who evacuated from the office building.